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Philosophy of Finitude
Heidegger, Levinas and Nietzsche
Philosophy of Finitude
Heidegger, Levinas and Nietzsche
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Examining the legacies of Heidegger, along with Derrida, Levinas and Nietzsche, Rafael Winkler argues that it is not the search for truth or even contradictions that stimulates philosophical thought. Instead, it is our exposure to the unthinkable or the impossible – to thought's own limits.
An experience of the unthinkable is possible in our encounter with the uniqueness of death, the singularity of being, and of the self and the other. This 'thinking of finitude' also has political implications, as it provides us with a way to talk about, and evaluate, absolute strangeness and, by implication, the absolute stranger or foreigner.
Illuminating Heidegger's writings on the question of ontology, ethics and history, Winkler proves that this encounter with thought's limits is one of the mainstays of the philosophies of difference of Heidegger, Levinas, and Nietzsche.
Table of Contents
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Death, the Impossible
1. Introduction
2. Perishing and demise
3. Is dying possible?
4. Singularization
5. Schizophrenia
6. Mourning
Chapter 2. Self and Other
1. Introduction
2. Vanquishing death
3. Alterity
4. The call
5. Guilt
6. Responsibility
Chapter 3. Figurations
1. Introduction
2. Proximities
3. The feminine welcome
4. The absolute arrivant
Chapter 4. Dwelling
1. Introduction
2. The earth
3. The gods
4. Antigone
5. Holy mourning
6. The proper and the foreign
7. Guestfriendship
Chapter 5. Beyond Truth
1. Introduction
2. Truth and error
3. Justice
4. Naturalism
5. The end of metaphysics
6. The will to truth
7. Self-discipline
8. Schein
Chapter 6. Substance
1. Introduction
2. The standard hypothesis
3. Essence
4. Substance
5. Rhetoric
6. Metaphor
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Product details
| Published | 23 Aug 2018 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 208 |
| ISBN | 9781350059375 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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